Overview
The matchmaking event where people with ideas and people with skills come together to get off the ground as a startup team. Individual founders or founding teams and people interested in founding a company from different universities and research institutions come together to exchange ideas across disciplines, network, share ideas, think them through further together – and in the process grow together to form ideal founding teams.
Photos © Anne Gaertner
Description
Cast off! You have an idea and want to found a startup, but the right crew is still missing? Or you don’t have a start-up idea at all, but want to get hired somewhere and bring some knowledge and qualifications with you? Then “Meet&Match” offers you the opportunity to network and share! Our matchmaking event aims to build successful startup teams. In a guided process lasting several weeks, you go through various phases of getting to know each other and see if you fit together as a team. How does that work? Very simple!
- Phase 1: “Meet&Match” starts with a kick-off event where founders (teams) pitch their startup ideas. Afterwards, there will be a kind of “speed dating” in which founders (teams) and people interested in founding a company will have a first short exchange.
- Phase 2: Following the kick-off event, the aim is to get to know each other better on a personal level. This is about getting to know each other even better and seeing if the sympathy is right.
- Phase 3: If the chemistry between you is right, then it goes into the working phase. Here you can now check how you function as future colleagues in the team. To do this, you work on existing or fictitious problems and test what your collaboration would look like.
- Phase 4: Finally, you will address more sensitive topics, e.g., responsibilities, foundation shares, etc.
The team behind “Meet&Match” accompanies you during each phase, provides you with working and communication guidelines and mediates if it turns out during a phase that it is not a hundred percent fit after all. However, if you pass through all the stages successfully, then we talk about a match. With this, you are ready to put your idea into action as a founding team. And if you notice in the course of the phases that there is something wrong, no problem! You can go through the phases with several people at the same time or simply register for the next round of “Meet&Match”.
Field report
Nicht swipen, gründen
Oliver und Lars waren beim ersten Durchlauf von „Meet&Match“ dabei und berichten in unseren News von ihren Erfahrungen.
Oliver and Lars were there for the first run of “Meet&Match” and report on their experiences in our news. Just click:
„Wir wollten ein ausgewogenes Team sein.“
Was machst du, wenn du eine fast schon revolutionäre Idee hast, aber niemanden, der sie mit dir auf den Markt bringt? Genau, du meldest dich bei Meet&Match an! So wie Felix, Lars und Caro von iPolis.
„Gar kein richtiges Leben mehr”
„Wir wollen etwas bauen, was langlebig da ist!“. Mit diesem Traum starteten die zwei jungen Gründerinnen Yolanda und Luca ihr Startup ReDo. Wie ihnen Meet&Match geholfen hat, erfahrt ihr in ihrer Erfolgsstory.
Besonders wichtig ist ein starkes Team!
Kennenlernen, Matchen – und dann doch noch nicht gründen? Auf den ersten Blick könnte man meinen, dass dies sich wie die Geschichte gescheiterter Gründer anhört. Lars und Sepehr zeigen jedoch das absolute Gegenteil.
Compact info
Target group:
- Groups and/or individuals with startup idea
- Individuals with desire/interest to found, but without concrete idea
This offer is primarily aimed at members of the affiliated institutions. We are also happy to allocate free places to other interested start-ups from the Hamburg metropolitan region or beyond.
Format:
Matchmaking
Start:
3-4x a year
Duration:
Individual process of several weeks per matchmaking round (depends on the respective get-to-know team)
Cost:
Free of charge
Registration
Want to attend the next Meet&Match event on 11/16/2022 and meet your future founding team?
Registrations are possible at any time. Click on “Registration form” below:
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